The Political Whore » Great Britain http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/politicalwhore Florida's leading source for inside information on politics and media Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:05:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Blimey! Half of the UK’s local, regional press could be shut down by 2014, Parliament is told http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/politicalwhore/2009/06/17/blimey-half-of-the-uks-local-regional-press-could-be-shut-down-by-2014-parliament-is-told/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/politicalwhore/2009/06/17/blimey-half-of-the-uks-local-regional-press-could-be-shut-down-by-2014-parliament-is-told/#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:03:08 +0000 Wayne Garcia http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/politicalwhore/?p=7309 It’s not just U.S. daily print journalism that is dying a horrible, twisting death; it is also happening in Great Britain.

This from the Guardian:

Claire Enders, the chief executive of Enders Analysis, told a Commons committee that newspapers would close across Britain because revenues would collapse by 52% – or £1.3bn – between 2007 and 2013.

“We are expecting up to half of all the 1,300 titles will close in the next five years,” Enders told the Commons culture, media and sport select committee hearing on the future of local and regional media.

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